Maria Riviello
Mechanical characterization of materials for the manufacture of microvessel-mimicking phantoms.
Rel. Diego Gallo, Francesco Moscato. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2024
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Microvascular phantoms are promising tools employable in simulations of realistic surgical scenarios for the development of surgical experience. Being free of ethical issues and customizable to patient-specific anatomies, they represent optimal alternatives to animal and cadaver training and a good solution for preoperative planning. Nevertheless, the adoption and the effectiveness of these simulations heavily relies on the ability of the phantoms to accurately mimic the biomechanical properties of human blood vasculature. In order to achieve this goal, available manufacturing technologies are successfully used to produce phantoms with reduced thickness, but with the limitation of resembling only a limited range of real conditions due to manufacturing methods constraints.
This research thesis focuses on materials suitable for the production of microvascular phantoms through different manufacturing techniques and their mechanical characterization
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